Mary Baker Eddy - A Life Size Portrait

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Mary Baker Eddy A Life Size Portrait BY LYMAN P. POWELL The Christian Science Publishing Society Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A. Copyright, 1930, 1950, by The Christian Science Publishing Society Boston, Massachusetts Copyright in the United States of America, Canada, England, France, and other countries. All rights reserved, including the right of re production in whole or in part in any form. All quotations in this book are duly copyrighted in the United States of America, Canada, England, France, and other foreign countries and are used by permission of the copyright owners namely, The Christian Science Board of Directors of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts the Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society. Library of Congress Catalogue Card No. 51-544 Printed in U. S. A. Copyright 1930 by The Christian Science Board of Directors. MARY BAKER EDDY Used by permission. P 1 To MY MOTHER MARY ANN POWELL 1829-1906 6 1 6 b - 1 b Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8 32 And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus to do unto others as we would have them do unto us and to be merciful, just, and pure. Mary Baker Eddy I love the prosperity of Zion, be it promoted by Catholic, by Protestant, or by Christian Science. ... I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. Mary Baker Eddy If this . . . work be of men, it will come to nought But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it. Acts 5 38, 39 This biography of Mary Baker Eddy by Dr. Lyman P. Powell has been approved byThe Christian Science Board of Directors for sale or use in Christian Science Reading Rooms. It is a fair and intelligent account of Mrs. Eddy s life and an estimate of her work by an author who is not a Christian Scientist but who, as a minister of another Christian denomination has observed her career and the development of its results for many years. Such a book by an independent bi ographer, who has sought information at its natural sozirces, should be of particular in terest to persons who have heard or read ac counts of Mrs. Eddy by speakers or writen who were not correctly informed or were actuated by hostility. Dr. Powell s con clusions as well as his narrations are en tirely his own. CONTENTS PAGE Prologue 1 CHAPTER I A Challenge 25 II A Rich Girlhood 52 III Finding Herself 72 IV Building the Book 106 V Founder 140 VI At Pleasant View 170 VII quot The Full Grain in the Ear quot . . . . 211 VIII quot By Their Fruits quot 244 Twenty Years After 266 Notes 273 Index 319

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